Classroom Winter Party

My two middle children are in the same class together. Their school believes in multi-age classrooms, so Emma (who is in first grade) is in a class along with her big-sis Kaylin (who is in third grade). I love this concept. It works on so many levels!
Anyway, I am the party coordinator for their class of 53 kids (there are two teachers and the classroom used to have 48 kids but because of budget cuts the classroom grew). The two teachers make this job extremely easy for me, and I love them for it! They are easily accessible if I have any questions and are very flexible!
This year for the classroom winter party, they decided to have stations. This was such an amazing idea. We had four groups of kids rotate between the stations and it went very smoothly.

Here is the Bingo station. The kids love this game! The classroom is called "Ohana Center" (Ohana means family in Hawaiin) so I found this site that allows you to design your own bingo cards. The time allotted turned out to be perfect. Almost every kid was able to get a Bingo! We gave them cherry candy-canes even if they didn't win.

Emma was all set to win B-I-G!

The second station was a penguin craft that I found where the kids trace their shoe to make the body of the penguin. This stations ended up taking up the most time, but the kids loved it! I should also explain that it was school spirit week and it was "Crazy/Random, Day" on the party day, so the kids were all dressed crazy and random. One of the teachers walked around giving out mustaches for people to wear. Totally random!

Cousin Luc with his almost finished penguin. He is so good about smiling for his Auntie's camera! Thank's Luc!

Kaylin working hard on her penguin. She made a beak that could open and close.

Here are some of the penguins! They turned out so cute and each one very different from the other!
We had pipe cleaners and beads set up for kids to make candy-canes, wreaths, pencil toppers...

and apparently bracelets. :)

The last station was sugar cookie decorating. You can't really tell, but the kids put mountains of sugar on top of the cookies.

She had to open wide to get the entire mountain of sugar in to her mouth. Most of it fell on to her plate, though.

Sugar lips! Hahaha!

The little sisters (Pay and Livi) got to decorate cookies too!

They got way into it and I had to take off for a few to go check on some other kids.

When I came back, I noticed that all of their toppings had frosting on them but were on the side of their plate still. Turns out they were decorating, then scraping the toppings off and licking the frosting, only to start all over again! Silly girls!

After the party, the kids went to recess and a small nature walk. When they returned they had a healthy snack of pretzels, satsuma's, berries,and juice.

I was so happy to find that out of an entire classroom of 53 students, my two girls sat together with a few other friends to eat their snack. :) Hey! Turn around Kaylin!

Ah! Much better! Thank you!

These two got to hang with the big kids all day and had a blast! Next year they will both be in kindergarten, down the hall. ::Sigh::